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From: U09046@uicvm.uic.edu (Bob Jackiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: Bogus reminder notices
Message-ID: <91147.112100U09046@uicvm.uic.edu>
Date: 27 May 91 16:21:00 GMT
References: <1991May27.010251.6255@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
 <1991May27.055458.16649@mathcs.sjsu.edu>
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In article <1991May27.055458.16649@mathcs.sjsu.edu>, horstman@mathcs.sjsu.edu
(Cay Horstmann) says:
>Contribution: WBGH       $15
>Optional Contribution    $15
>
>Is the WBGH contribution mandatory? I really dislike this entire idea of
>contributions already added into my total.
>In fact, it
>annoys me so much that I always cross them out and don't have to feel guilty
>for not contributing ("If they would have only asked me nicely, I would
>have...")

Not that this has anything to do with the ACM directly, but when I was
in Florida for Spring Break, we went downstairs to the HoJo restaurant.
There were 4 of us, and the bill came to something like $19. They had
a 'Voluntary (?) Gratuity' space on the check. It kinda pissed me off that
they put a gratuity in there, but they had the audacity to come and tell
us that we underpaid by a dollar! When we told the cashier that we took
the dollar from the gratuity, she looked at us like this never happened
before. What does this mean: People (companies) try to do it all the time.
Pay what you have to, plus what you want.

Brought to you by the sick mind of
Bob Jackiewicz, writer of wrongs, wronger of rights.
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